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Though each of them may be equally fenced around by armed soldiers, nevertheless the one uses his troops to safeguard the peace of his kingdom, the other uses them to quell great hatred by great terror: and yet he does not look with any confidence upon those to whose hands he entrusts himself. He is driven in opposite directions by conflicting passions: for since he is hated because he is feared, he wishes to be feared because he is {398} hated: and he acts up to the spirit of that odious verse, which has cast so many headlong from their thrones—
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency

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